full 4x5 image glass negative carrier for Omega D-2?

[Tin Can]

I use Calumet 8X10 no glass, no springs, no holes

Careful usage, it is super good

I also have a Saltsman 5X7 stretcher

many ways to Nirvana

[benr]

Better to stretch a negative out tight as possible using blue masking tape, no fancy springy carrier needed. And I can do that on any of my vintage DII machines. I do like seeing the rebate area on my sheet film negs."

Thanks all for the replies. Daniel, can you clarify how you are doing this? On what carrier are you taping the 4x5 neg to see rebate?

[Tin Can]

Rebate is affectation

It adds nothing

imho

did not pros allow neg room for tweaking

[Daniel Unkefer]

Thanks all for the replies. Daniel, can you clarify how you are doing this? On what carrier are you taping the 4x5 neg to see rebate?

I like to enlarge these 9x9cm negs, this one was TMX100 taped four corners, I like how seeing the reabate adds to the presentation. Unfiortunately I cannot print the entire neg, but I have done it with a glass carrier on my Omega 5x7 E3. Nice to see the entire frame, I make a border around it. The light does tend to flare around the edges. The cleanest work I see here is produced with digital camera and copy stand, I'm investigating this right now. I do have an original Omega 4x5 glass carrier, comparing it to the glassless carrier, the image area is quite a bit smaller, and I don't see any way to open either of these up, so I'm done with this idea. Showing rebate can add to an image or not. Here's a 9x9cm neg, it just fits taped in the standard 4x5 glassless carrier.

Makiflex TMX100 Kodak Readyload 545 D23 by Nokton48, on Flickr

TMAX100 4x5 Readyload 545 Back Makiflex D23. Omega DII with Omegalite laser aligned Arista RC #2 paper Multigrade dev. Digital background shot by Tim Layton and enlarged at Cosco. Studio overhead lighting. 150mm f5.6 chrome barrel Schneider Xenar. Great lens I bought for fifty bucks.

[Tin Can]

Daniel

I apologize again

Carry on regardless

I wake on a 'rampage'

then I have breakfast and calm down



a little bit

[Daniel Unkefer]

No prob. I need more coffee right now.

E3 CLA 4 by Nokton48, on Flickr

This is the rebuilt Omega E3 Glass Negative Carrier and modified enlarger top to fit it. I drop an Olde Omegalite E4 on top and it illuminates perfectly. Glenn Evans did some precision machine work on this and it is usably restored. The washers keep the negative carrier in good registration.

E3 CLA 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

E3 Negative Carriers 4x5 to 35mm all usuable. Very thick metal!

[Tin Can]

I have been to Glenn's fortress

He visited mine

I bought a Saltzman 5X7 stretcher from him

I first lived in Chicago where his shop is now

Never going back

[Michael R]

Wow, that's some heavy stuff.

No prob. I need more coffee right now.

E3 CLA 4 by Nokton48, on Flickr

This is the rebuilt Omega E3 Glass Negative Carrier and modified enlarger top to fit it. I drop an Olde Omegalite E4 on top and it illuminates perfectly. Glenn Evans did some precision machine work on this and it is usably restored. The washers keep the negative carrier in good registration.

E3 CLA 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

E3 Negative Carriers 4x5 to 35mm all usuable. Very thick metal!

[Drew Wiley]

I wish I could get film rebates; but I always have to pay full price.